Olephia "Leafy" King, a native Nevadan, was born in 1905, and spent her early years in Goldfield and Saulsbury Wash northeast of Tonopah. As a young child, she moved to a ranch in central Nevada, where she lived for the next three decades. Her...

From intramurals to intercollegiate competition, the University of Nevada has long offered its students the opportunity to pursue their love of athletics along with their studies. However, for many years, athletic opportunities for young women...

James W. Calhoun was born in Philipsburg, Montana, in 1903. His oral history outlines the development of the Nevada State Museum, of which he was director from 1950 to 1973. The museum was founded in 1939, when the Nevada legislature passed a bill...

Keston Ramsey was born in 1908. He has lived most of his life in the Reno area. Mr. Ramsey was active in the ski industry from 1945 until 1964; during those years he constructed and ran the Sky Tavern Lodge at the Mt. Rose Ski Bowl, which he...

Segment 96 - "Climate Change" (Air Date: December 14, 2004). Discusses a report by the Sierra Nevada Alliance about how global warming and climate change could affect the Sierra snow pack. Scientists from the Desert Research Institute, the US...

In 1900 Churchill County was Nevada's poorest and least populated county, with fewer than 850 residents. It had no appreciable mining industry, and its arid valleys and basins could not support agriculture. Two federal projects would eventually...

Andrew D. Crofut is a Nevadan in the true sense. What does this mean? Crofut was born in 1889 and grew up on a ranch in Diamond Valley at the juncture of Eureka and Elko counties. The ranch provides the focus for a major portion of this memoir. The...

Photograph of the Nevada men's basketball program for the games against Boise State University and the University of Texas at El Paso on February 12 and 14, 2004. The cover features head coach Trent Johnson. The Wolf Pack defeated the Broncos 92 to...

Photograph of the Nevada edition of the 2005 Sheraton Hawaii Bowl Guide cover for the game between Nevada and the University of Central Florida on December 24, 2005. The cover features #26 Roosevelt Cooks, #58 Tony Moll, Chris Ault, #3 Jeff Rowe,...

Photograph of the Nevada baseball program cover for the 1983 season. The cover features Wolf Pack seniors, from left to right, Tony Shanks, Barry Kuzminski, Rich McEwan, and Mondel Williams. Shanks was a catcher for the Wolf Pack from 1979 to 1980...

Complete title: The Lake Of The Sky -- Lake Tahoe in the High Sierras of California and Nevada: Its history, Indians, discovery by Fremont, legendary lore, various namings, physical characteristics, glacial phenomena, geology, single outlet,...

Andrew Ginocchio was born in the northern Italian community of Comuneglia di Ligure on June 29, 1893. His father, Giovanni Ginocchio, traveled to the United States in 1864 at the age of eighteen, and found work in San Francisco with the Central...

This oral history reviews a remarkable life, from childhood in the shaky time between World War I and World War II, adolescence with the Hitler era underway, and young manhood in the German Wehrmacht, including a stint in Russia. By virtue of an...

Americans of Basque ancestry figure prominently in the history of Nevada. Sheepherding and innkeeping are the activities most commonly associated with the state's Basques in the mind of the general public, but that is an excessively narrow...

Archie Murchie’s action-packed career in the U.S. Forest Service began in 1929, when rangers routinely spent much of their time in the saddle, and ended in 1965 as they were becoming increasingly desk bound. The Free Life of a Ranger is Murchie’s...

Photograph of the Nevada edition of the 2008 Roady's Humanitarian Bowl Guide for the game against the University of Maryland on December 30, 2008. The covers features #4 Marko Mitchell, #61 Dominic Green, #10 Colin Kaepernick, and #34 Vai Taua. The...

Photograph of the Nevada football media guide cover for the MPC Computers Bowl. This bowl game between Nevada and the University of Miami was played on December 31, 2006. The cover features #91 J.J. Milan, #23 Joe Garcia, #61 Dominic Green, and #3...

Photograph of the Nevada football program cover for the 1-AA National Championship Playoffs quarterfinal game between Nevada and Youngstown State University on December 7, 1991. The cover features #19 Joe King, #76 Tony Edwards, #56 Tom Werbeckes,...

Photograph of the Nevada baseball program cover for the 1991 season. The cover features seniors, from left to right, Junior Pro, Chris Mortenson, Doug Van Tress, and Jay Patterson. Pro was a utility player for the Wolf Pack from 1990 to 1991. Over...